Using Forensic Techniques for Internet Activity Reconstruction

Abstract

In this article we are searching for digital footprints of our everyday internet activity that have been left by web browsers and instant messengers. We are going to show the way in which a forensic expert can use these artefacts, and we focus on the risk of cyber crime against a single user who is not sufficiently careful to protect his or her information. We undertook this research using a real criminal investigation example, we present the kind of tools and techniques that should be used, where they should be used and by combining an expert with an individual user we find out the kind of information that has been collected and stored about a user by a client computer.